{"id":11773,"date":"2019-12-04T04:13:42","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T19:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/03\/north-korea-christmas-gift-missile-nuclear"},"modified":"2019-12-04T04:13:42","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T19:13:42","slug":"north-korea-says-choice-of-christmas-gift-is-up-to-us-amid-missile-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=11773","title":{"rendered":"North Korea says choice of &#8216;Christmas gift&#8217; is up to US amid missile tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Pyongyang had given US till end of year to change position<\/li>\n<li>\u2018Dialogue touted by US \u2026 is a foolish trick\u2019 linked to 2020 vote<\/li>\n<li>Help us cover the critical issues of 2020. This Giving Tuesday, consider <a href=\"https:\/\/support.theguardian.com\/contribute?acquisitionData=%7B%22source%22%3A%22GUARDIAN_WEB%22%2C%22componentType%22%3A%22ACQUISITIONS_EDITORIAL_LINK%22%2C%22componentId%22%3A%22USeoy2019_standfirst_givingtues%22%2C%22campaignCode%22%3A%22USeoy2019%22%7D&amp;INTCMP=USeoy2019\">making a contribution<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>North Korea yesterday issued a thinly veiled warning it could resume long-distance missile tests in the next few weeks if the US does not change its negotiating position on the regime\u2019s nuclear disarmament, saying \u201cit is entirely up to the US what Christmas gift it will select to get\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/03\/north-koreas-kim-jong-un-opens-new-city-and-socialist-utopia-of-samjiyon\">North Korea&#8217;s Kim Jong-un opens new city and &#8216;socialist utopia&#8217; of Samjiyon<\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/03\/north-korea-christmas-gift-missile-nuclear\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pyongyang had given US till end of year to change position\u2018Dialogue touted by US \u2026 is a foolish trick\u2019 linked to 2020 voteHelp us cover the critical issues of 2020. This Giving Tuesday, consider making a contributionNorth Korea yesterday issued a thinl&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,415,40,758,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-donald-trump","category-north-korea","category-us-national-security","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11774,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11773\/revisions\/11774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}